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Quora bots and crawlers
Quora runs a question-and-answer site and the Poe AI chat platform.
Quora bots at a glance
- Quora runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Social and Messaging Previews.
- Each Quora bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.quora.com
Every Quora bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quora-Bot | Social and Messaging Previews | Link previewReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Quora bots
The rules below name every Quora token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Quora bots
User-agent: Quora-Bot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Quora bots
User-agent: Quora-Bot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Quora bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Quora-Bot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Quora bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Quora\-Bot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Quora bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Quora\-Bot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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